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RT @archdaily: From the top of the Burj Dubai http://bit.ly/55De3k
RT @archdaily: From the top of the Burj Dubai http://bit.ly/55De3k
This is unbelievable!!!! all skyscrapers are reduced to miniature buildings.
How pointless. we used to have something known as culture you know.
aren’t these burj getting a little old now?
it’s very tall… now what? It really is pointless.
if we say that celebrating the technique, the human genius and the creativity is pointless, well, yes, the burj dubai is pointless, like a lot of stuff built on this planet.
so I guess they did it, they reach the top right? maybe next challenge should be who can reach the center of the earth? or put a building inside a volcano? in the deepest of the ocean? or how about help people who doesn’t have a place to live?… but honestly I really think is great that Burj Dubai is the tallest building in the world in the middle of the dessert, I bet this is going to benefit all human kind, or at least some… maybe I’ll go there to do some skydiving, you can bet on that. Thanks for the video!
and i bet that in 1889 there were people talking in the same way about the eiffel tower. luckily they built it even if it wasn’t useful to the clochards
Insane view from the top of the Burj Dubai http://twurl.nl/4bsiqh
RT @modernmod: Insane view from the top of the Burj Dubai http://twurl.nl/4bsiqh
Recently read: From the top of the Burj Dubai: An amazing view of Dubai from the top of the tallest building in the… http://bit.ly/6MXGAw
What so we can go and pilgrimage to the eiffel tower now as tourists?
Feel slightly alienated the consume small golden versions of the tower?
To disperse these tokens to family and friends? appropiating all that is good and to be seen?
La vista desde el nuevo Edificio mas alto del Mundo en Dubai: http://bit.ly/6t8dz2
From the top of the Burj Dubai http://bit.ly/5cPhjw – Még filmen nézni is rossz, nem hogy oda felmenni
From the top of the Burj Dubai | the Apollo of skyscrapers | http://www.archdaily.com/45372/from-the-top-of-thr-burj-dubai
Amazing commentary. I wonder if it is a renaissance of medieval thinking or if this pervasive negativism never left us. Of course, the medieval wasn’t pervasively negative, though these comments are.
@Rob thanks for making the comparison to the Tour de Eiffel. This building is, first and foremost, and engineering achievement of the first magnitude. It should be celebrated.
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Not sure any of us can say what medieval thought was or was not, i’d still say the burj and the eiffel tower to us today are pointless. In this sense i’d completely agree with you that they are both fine engineering achievements but they ain’t architecture.
Iee, everything that is built by man is architecture.
two columns with beam on top is also architecture.
In my opinion this building does not show cultural identity.
Of course this building has many problems and potentials, but hey
this is, the tallest architecture building in the world or maybe even in universe. :)
Mañana es la inauguración oficial de la Burj Dubai http://www.archdaily.com/45372/from-the-top-of-thr-burj-dubai/ #fb
Please, it’s no less pointless than lee’s last little studio project.
I love how all these white, western upper middle class cunts feel SO threathened by Dubai in general. How it questions everything mother thought them was ‘good taste’.
RC von W you are talking class propaganda not taste, taste was never commented on, but i agree with you to a point. My commentary was completely indifferent to Dubai (in general) the commentary was on the burj as a monument and the effects of it on the social milieu; not on Dubai as a destination. Are you planning a visit? if you are suggesting it is all pointless then i could not agree more; if you think Dubai is great and desire it it would be my opinion that you are of course a corpse.
also what is Dubai questioning?
OMG… From the top of the Burj Dubai http://ow.ly/RYiz Compare to the high rises below…
pointless, but i’m sure they help bring in tourism dollars for the city…
ehehe i hope so, cause Dubai is in debt for about 150 billions dollars!
oh, last news: now the tower is called burj khalifa, in honor of Abu Dhabi’s khalif that lent 20 billions dollars to Dubai
u s e l e s s t h i n g e v e r !
From the top of the Burj Dubai. The highest building in the world http://bit.ly/7HDitS (via @archdaily)
OMG… From the top of the Burj Dubai http://ow.ly/RYkr Compare to the high rises below…
OMG… From the top of the Burj Dubai http://ow.ly/RYkr Compare to the high rises below… RT @StevenParrott
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